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They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Age: 60 †
Born: 1821
Born: January 1
Died: 1881
Died: January 1
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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
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It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
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Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.
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Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
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Beauty would save the world.
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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?
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Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
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originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity on a square yard of space.
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